The legend of Carlos Beltran is growing to epic proportions. The 36-year-old entered the 2013 post-season with a 1.154 OPS in 151 post-season plate appearances. He hit his 15th career playoff home run in Game 1 on Thursday, tying Babe Ruth for the eighth-most all-time.

Beltran passed the Bambino with his 16th career playoff home run with a solo shot to right-center off of Pirates reliever Mark Melancon to lead off the top of the eighth inning, tying the game at 3-3. Beltran took a cutter for a called strike before turning on a 93 MPH four-seamer.

Melancon has been the Pirates’ most reliable reliever all year, finishing up the regular season with a 1.39 ERA in 71 innings.

There are literlaly millions of people all over the glove who would say you have enough money for the rest of your life too. I imagine you’ll be taking a pay cut when the time comes because you like your boss so much you feel like you owe him one.

A lot easier to take a pay cut when you are making 16 million a year…as opposed to (you know)…$25,000, $30,000, $50,000 a year. But your point is taken. I am sure A.P. would have wound up with one foot in the free cheese line should he have done so.

And you wouldn’t have to walk 3 miles for clean water if you took a pay cut. Wealth is relative so it’s petty when you start counting someone else’s money. Why should Pujols have left tens of millions if dollars on the table to cut his billionaire boss in St. Louis a break?

It’s a terrible contract and I could have told you that from day one, but it’s not AP’s fault it was offered to him and you can’t fault him for taking the money because the overwhelming odds are that you would have too.